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Today's
post
comes
from
Sydney
Shealy,
Market
Segment
Manager,
Application
Security.
In
their
annual
report
released
this
month,
the
IBM
X-Force
Research
and
Development
team
labeled
2011
as
the
year
of
the
security
breach.
The
report
pointed
out
that
attackers
did
not
discriminate
by
sector,
company
size,
or
location.
With
this
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On
a
Smarter
Planet,
analytics
make
cities
safer
and
people
healthier.
Crunching
the
numbers
gives
us
insights
that
make
our
businesses
outperform.
Some
insights,
though,
aren't
as
exciting.
For
example:
at
last
count,
your
chances
of
winning
tonight's
$540-million
Mega
Millions
lottery
were
176
million
to
one.I
repeat:
176
million....to
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I've
done
it
again.
I've
rearranged
my
iPhone
icons
in
(yet)
another
attempt
to
make
sense
of
my
world.
It's
probably
another
fool's
errand,
but
I
can't
help
myself.
I'm
a
compulsive
organizer.
I
bus
my
own
tables.
As
a
kid
I
organized
my
bookshelf
by
book
height
and
used
... [ + Read more ]

Earlier
this
month
I
wrote
about
the
coming
era
of
expert
integrated
systems,
complete
with
a
video
on
the
value
of
simplicity,
the
first
of
these
systems'
many
benefits.
Now
it's
time
to
introduce
the
second
benefit,
agility.
Again,
the
IBM
team
has
produced
a
nifty
video
that
should
incent
... [ + Read more ]

I
have
a
friend
in
Canada
who
doesn't
trust
technology.
For
years
we've
discussed
this
over
the
Internet
--
the
standard
communications
platform
for
people
who
want
to
argue
at
great
length,
across
great
distances,
to
no
apparent
benefit
or
conclusion.
His
idea
is
that
since
he
didn't
design
and
... [ + Read more ]

There’s
a
hidden
side
to
everything.
That’s
the
premise
of
the
New
York
Times
best-seller,
blog
and
recent
movie,
Freakonomics.
But
it’s
also
the
premise
behind
analytics.
Organizations
often
find
insights
in
their
data,
but
they
have
to
be
willing
–
and
able
–
to
ask
good
questions.
Stephen
Dubner
... [ + Read more ]

Exciting
news
yesterday
from
the
IBM
Watson
team:
Memorial
Sloan-Kettering
Cancer
Center
(MSKCC)
and
IBM
have
agreed
to
collaborate
to
develop
a
powerful
tool
built
on
IBM
Watson
to
provide medical
professionals
with
improved
access
to
current
and
comprehensive
cancer
data
and
practices.Cancer
is
prevalent
in
my
family,
so
I'm
more
... [ + Read more ]

Twice
a
year
IBM's
X-Force
Research
and
Development
team,
in
partnership
with
several
other
organizations
from
around
the
IBM
Security
team
come
together
to
publish
data,
analysis
and
operational
advice
for
security
professionals
and
the
broader
community
of
internet
and
computer
users
around
the
trends
we
are
seeing
in
IT
... [ + Read more ]

The
era
of
Smarter
Analytics
began
on
Tuesday
as
IBM
announced
a
bold
new
vision
and
a
raft
of
new
solutions
to
help
organizations
transform
information
into
insights
and
insights
into
action.
On-hand
at
New
York's
Grand
Hyatt
Hotel
to
make
the
announcement
were
IBM
Software
Senior
Vice
President
and
... [ + Read more ]

Guest
post
from
Mark
Heid,
Program
Director,
Social
Analytics
at
IBM
(Follow
Mark
on
Twitter:
@mheid)
Just
over
15
years
ago,
authors
of
a
book
entitled,
“The
Discipline
of
Market
Leaders,”
asserted
there
were
three
(and
only
three)
ways
for
a
company
to
lead
their
market(s).
Their
thesis
is
not
complicated:
invest
... [ + Read more ]

Every
so
often
you
experience
an
eye-opening
moment
that
brings
into
clear
focus
the
realities
of
the
world
around
you.
I
experienced
such
a
moment
recently
reading
a
quote
from
Google's
chairman
Eric
Schmidt.
It
was
this:
‘Every
two
days
we
create
as
much
information
as
we
did
from
the
... [ + Read more ]

Africa
is
the
world's
fastest-growing
market
for
mobile
phone
service.
In
time,
it
may
also
become
the
fastest-growing
market
for
a
new
kind
of
application
-
and
economic
-
development.
Consider
the
success
of
iCow,
"the
world's
first
mobile
phone
cow
calendar"
and
winner
of
the
2010
Apps4Africa
contest.
Developed
in
... [ + Read more ]

IBM
completed
its
acquisition
of
Worklight
and
announced
the
news
at
the
recent
Mobile
World
Congress
in
Barcelona.
By
combining
capabilities,
IBM
and
Worklight
aim
to
help
CIOs
fulfill
what
analysts
say
is
their
#2
priority
–
to
improve
mobile
capability.
This
likely
involves
a
two-pronged
approach:
first,
organizations
need
... [ + Read more ]

Software
is
expected
to
drive
nearly
half
of
IBM's
profits
by
2015
according
to
its
2011
Annual
Report.
In
her
first
Letter
to
Shareholders,
new
CEO
Ginni
Rometty
ushered
in
IBM's
second
century
by
highlighting
record
revenue,
profit,
free
cash
flow
and
earnings
per
share.
"Our
strong
strategic
positioning,
... [ + Read more ]

The
March
issue
of
the
IBM
Software
Newsletter
has
been
in
inboxes
for
just
a
little
more
than
24
hours,
but
already
it
looks
like
the
new
IBM
SmartCloud
offerings,
announced
at
Pulse
2012,
are
getting
most
of
the
attention
from
our
readers.
Here’s
a
quick
reader’s/viewer’s
guide
you
can
... [ + Read more ]

Midsize
businesses
may
want
to
please
customers
--
but
do
they
always
know
how?
Paul
Graham
--
one
of
the
founders
of
Viaweb,
which
was
sold
for
a
zillion
dollars
to
Yahoo
back
in
the
nineties
--
once
said
this:
‘I
think
most
businesses
fail
because
they
don't
give
customers